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		wichert on Oct 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unfork() You could use LD_PRELOAD to replace unlink with a version that passes an fd to a running recycle-bin daemon. That approach doesn't really have much, or any, advantage over just moving files to a recycle-bin folder and keeping track of items in there.

claudius on Oct 30, 2019 | [–]

It would "automatically empty" the recycle bin at each shutdown though.

coldtea on Oct 30, 2019 | [–]

Doesn't it have the advantage that "rm" and co are then made automatically undo-able?

(Whereas moving to recycle-bin is a manual process you need to remember to do).

saagarjha on Oct 30, 2019 | [–]

  alias rm trash

coldtea on Oct 30, 2019 | | [–]

Also a manual process -- and per user at that...

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